Share some of your favorite lyrics from a song or lines from a poem

HaHaCharade

Mine are depressing, but I love them anyway lol

I got nicotine stains on my fingers
I got a silver spoon on a chain
Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains.
I got wild starring eyes
And I got a strong urge to fly
But I got nowhere to fly to...
-- Pink Floyd, "Nobody Home"

Like a baby stillborn
Like a beast with its horn
I have torn everyone who reached out to me
-- Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire"

Sily

This will be a bit longer, but... yeah.

http://library.flawlesslogic.com/sigrd.htm
Quote from "The Lay of Sigrdrifa" follows:

Sigrdrifa said:

I counsel you first , among kinsmen remain
Free from fault and reproach:
Be slow to wrath though they wrong you much,
This will do you good in death.

I counsel you second; swear no oath
But what you mean to abide by:
A halter awaits the word breaker,
Villainous is the wolf-of-vows.

I counsel you third;
at the Thing never bandy
Words with unwise men,
For the unwise man often speaks
worse words than he knows.

But speak your mind; of the silent it is often
Believed they are low-born cowards,
That their foes are speaking the truth.
Famous-at-home may fail abroad
When strangers test his truth:
The reward of the liar is not long in coming;
He dies the very next day.

I say to you fourth; if a sorceress dwell,
A witch by the way side,
It is better to leave than to be her guest
Though night fall on your faring.

Fore-sighted eyes need the sons of men
Whenever they come to combat;
By the broad road may sit bale wise women
Who blunt both blades and courage.

I counsel you fifth; though fair be the maids
On the benches within the hall,
Let your sleep not be ruled by the silver of marriage,
Nor beguile the girls with kisses.

I counsel you sixth; if you sit with warriors
And the ale talk turns ill,
Bandy no words with bragging drunkards:
Wine steals the wits of many.

Quarrels and ale have often been
The cause of ill to heroes:
Death to some, to some bewitchment,
Many are the griefs of men.

I counsel you seventh; if you come disputing
With fierce hearted fighters,
To battle is better than to be burned in the hall,
Although it gleam with gold.

I counsel you eighth; of evil beware,
Of charming smiles of deceit:
Let no maidens entice you, nor men's wives,
Nor lead them into lawless pleasures.

I counsel you ninth; cover the dead
Whenever on earth you find them,
Be they dead of sickness or drowned in the river,
Or warriors slain by weapons.

Dead corpses you should clean with water,
Wash their hands and heads,
Comb and dry them, in their coffins lay them,
And bid them a blessed sleep.

I counsel you tenth; trust not ever
The words of a wolf's kin,
If you have killed his kin or felled his father:
Wolf's bane is in his blood, though he be glad of your gold.

Anger and hate are ever awake,
So is harm also:
The boar visored, when vain-glorious.
Lack both wit and weapons.

I counsel you eleventh; there lurks evil
Round each bend of the road:
A long life you must not look to have,
So great are the hatreds grown.


Quote ends.

PS. These can all be applied to real life. \o

rexreg

Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, the accursed anger which brought uncounted anguish on the Achaians and hurled down to Hades many mighty souls of heroes, making their bodies the prey to dogs and the birds' feasting: and this was the working of Zeus' will. Sing from the time of the first quarrel which divided Atreus' son, the lord of men, and godlike Achilles.

rexreg

and....

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know consequently a
little stiff i was
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thoroughly oiled the universal
joint tested my gas felt of
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the hell)next
minute i was back in neutral tried and

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lev-er Right-
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greasedlightning)just as we turned the corner of Divinity

avenue i touched the accelerator and give

her the juice,good

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happy to see how nice she acted right up to
the last minute coming back own by the Public
Gardens i slammed on

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e e cummings

rufus_hobart

I am watching them churn the last milk they'll ever get from me.
They are waiting for me to die;
They want to make buttons out of my bones.
Where are my sisters and brothers?
That tall monk there, loading my uncle, he has a new cap.
And that idiot student of his -- I never saw that muffler before.
Poor uncle, he lets them load him.
How sad he is, how tired!
I wonder what they'll do with his bones?
And that beautiful tail!
How many shoelaces will they make of that!

The Mad Yak - Gregory Corso.

TJ_Hooker

F*cking magnets, how do they work?

Xavioria

"This love is be and end all
This love will be your downfall"
-Ellie Goulding

"You shoot me down, but I won't fall
I am Titanium"
-Sia

Jolanthus

Even this doggerel that pours from my pen,
Has just been written by another twenty telepathic men,
Oh, word for word, it says:
"Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen".

Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age

Gilgalahad

The lyrics for Blue Oyster cult's Don't fear the reaper. I was too lazy to copy paste them i'm afraid hehe.

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